random snowboarding

I have spent this winter on the slopes as much as possible. I am addicted to the weather report and check it five times a day praying for snow. All this due to snowboarding! Winter in this country is really frustrating when you want to be snowboarding every weekend. The snow doesn't stay around as it is always melting and snowing, melting and snowing, this does lead to great powder conditions when it snows but on any given day you can't be sure there will be snow. They actually have a special name for snow that doesn't melt all winter and were shocked when I explained that it doesn't snow that much in Canada it just doesn't melt. Anyhow, here I am praying for snow once again but it is like the sun in the summer...comes on the week days when you are at work.

Mt. Hakkai, Minamiuonuma, Niigata

Tainai skijo, Niigata

snowboard can be a good sled as well!everybody likes the curry!

Ikenotaira Onsen, Myoko, Niigata